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Bonjour après une sessions sur votre jeux, j'ai remarquer plusieurs détails qui m'ont légèrement dérangé.

- Peu de communication textuel (Histoire en préparation ?)

- Problème lors de l'essayage du craft ( Water bottle posé dans le coté "Tools" est disparu après avoir quitté la fenêtre)

C'est tout ce que j'ai vu, pour le moment, j'ai quelques cas de lag souris mais pas sûr que se soit le jeu en lui même.

Continuez :)

Salut Majaaax,

Merci d'avoir pris le temps de tester Souls Rescue.

Il n'y a effectivement aucune communication textuel pour l'instant. Le jeu est en alpha et nous souhaitons nous concentrer sur la partie technique et gameplay. Mais je te donne le pitch que l'on a en tête pour l'instant :

• Tu meurs
• Ton âme a une dernière mission, sauver 7 âmes tourmentées de ta famille
• Voilà donc le pourquoi le choix du héro parmi 8 possibilités et et les 7 environnements pour la version finale de Souls Rescue
• Au départ du jeu, tu sort de ton cerceuil se trouvant dans le tombeau familiale
• Dans la toute première zone, une sorte d'ange te donnera le but à atteindre (tuer 7 boss, ...)

Une fois le jeu commencé, il y aura très peu de texte, mise à part les descriptions d'items. En fait, il ne faut pas voir Souls Rescue comme un RPG, mais vraiment comme un rogue-like classique, avec des sprites au lieu de charactères.

Dans le même style de jeu, tu aurais Pixel Dungeon que tu trouveras également sur itch.io ou Quest of Dungeon.

Pour l'instant, nous avons enlevé le fenêtre de craft. Il est toujours possible de construire des items directement via les recettes.

Pour ton lag de souris, je ne sais pas trop quoi te dire :) Nous avons testé le jeu sur une dizaine de PC (même des PC portables d'il y a 5 ou 6 ans) et n'avons pas rencontré ce soucis. Tu peux toujours essayer la touche F3 qui devrait t'affichier le nombre d'images par seconde. Je ne sais plus si dans l'alpha 0.0.2 j'avais limité le framerate à la synchro verticale. Ton problème vient peut-être de là. J'activerais cette option pour la 0.0.3

L'Alpha 0.0.3 devrait sortir entre demain et samedi matin, n'hésite pas à tester cette nouvelle version. Perso je commence à avoir un sérieux plaisir à visiter les niveaux, est-ce bon signe ? Il y a plein de nouveautés dans cette 0.0.3, mais j'en reparlerais.

Encore merci,

-oldteen

Je l'attendrais avec impatience. Le bug souris viens d'un de mes PC (Panasonic CF-C2). Sur les autres, tout fonctionne très bien.

alpha 0.0.4 released!

Alpha 5 released!

• new dungeon design
• add bow (use DEX for damage calculation). Select an enemy with TAB and press F to shoot
• add crossbow (use STR for damage calculation). Select an enemy with TAB and press F to shoot
• add dagger (use DEX for damage calculation)
• add enemy who cast fireball (more spells in future)
• add plate that reveals a chest or summons 1, 2 or 3 monsters or shoot an arrow from left or right wall.
• deadly hole of lava or acid. Walk on lava or acid, you directly die! Tell us if it's a good idea.
• add an xp line. At top of your screen in green
• items with green background in your inventory are better than the equipped one
• press F5 to enter in the Classic Mode (ascii). This feature is clearly not finished.
• tooltip for primary attributes (str, dex, …)

This game is great for an alpha, I just have couple criticisms. The dark graphic style is great. I love the traps because they are always visible but blend in well so the player has to watch carefully for them. The crafting system is nice too, but it is too easy to get ingredients. It is also too easy to get equipment and it would be nice if equipment stats were displayed in the inventory. My computer starts to lag a ton whenever I use the inventory/crafting or character menus, not sure why. Not all computers have a numpad, this make diagonal movement less convenient because we have to use the mouse. It would be nice if you would put movement hotkeys on yuhjklbn, y=upleft u=upright h=left j=down k=up l=right b=downleft n=downright. A short tutorial would be usefull. Some abilities would help make gameplay more interesting. A class system with entirely different equipment, stats, abilities, and crafts would add some much needed variety. The large dungeon floors seem a bit too large to me. Over all, gameplay is a bit too easy, seems a bit too slow, and quickly becomes somewhat mundane. It would be cool if lighting effected actual gameplay, Like if enemies on unlit tiles were undetectable (just a suggestion). Unlit tiles would be tiles not withing the light radius of any light source. Light sources would include torches and other terrain that light the map, the player himself who seems to have a light radius of one, and any enemies who also give off light. This would make gameplay much less predictable as the player may suddenly be attacked from a range by an enemy who was hiding in the dark. You could also throw in a craftable scroll of light to temporarely dispel darkness.

That's all I have, thanks for reading

Hi Aaronvo,

Thanks a lot to have tested Souls Rescue.

Invnetory

We are thinking to change our inventory window to a list, with more information per item but less items in same time in the window

Numpad

You are right for numpad. I use it instinctively and artist play with mouse. We have to think about keyboard without numpad.

Floor and Gameplay

I don't know if you have tried the alpha 4 ou 5 but in alpha 5 we already have reduced the size of the map, introduce traps and ranged combats to diversify the game. In the future, we will add more stuffs like keys to find, hidden passages, etc

Light

Currently, light is not a true gameplay element. It's more something decorative. Technically, this is just a dynamic lightmap and we have no light information in tile structure. Maybe we have to think about that.

Souls Rescue Alpha 6 is out!

• 9 new spell scrolls (fireball and heal already exist)
• playable with The Witch (too weak in previous release without new spells)
• new damage calculation
• music on Linux and OSX
• screen with basic option (fullscreen, window size, sound and music volume)
• AI improvement
• more enemies use ranged attack

New spell scrolls:

• cure, remove poison
• trap detection, show traps
• light, greater light around the hero
• shield, protect the hero
• sorcerer's eye, see all map for 3 turns
• curse, for 5 turns cut damage from enemies
• poison, ... poison
• mark, create a teleporter where you can come back with "recall" scroll
• recall, come back to the teleporter created with "mark"

Souls Rescue alpha 6.1

• recycle one item at a time
• remove fixed seed
• fix a problem with inventory
• F6-F7 change zoom of the game (like mouse wheel)

Hi CptPunition,

Thanks for your return. We are changing the engine to Unity. Problems like yours should disappear (I hope :) ).

Thanks sarsenij :)

I bet it was my controller and I am an ass. I will try this game again.